I had thought that nothing more deserved my contemptuous, dismissive ire than a persistent (or, worst of all, an unconscious or instinctual) belief in Class or Caste--

Which binds and fetters people within the "socioeconomic" circumstances and the narrow, hidebound philosophy of ignorance that they are born into, and which they adopt unquestioningly, often wordlessly and inchoately, from their parents and their parents' social milieu; and which is the underlying, unexamined, all-pervading prime tenet of most European philosophies and religions, including Marxism, neo-Marxism, Feminism, Islam and Christianity: Thou art, forever, what God has made thee.

And yet, while this philosophy of enslavement sufficiently explains the backwardness of Kansas, Texas and West Virginia, and the savage corporal punishment of children in the public schools of Red States, it fails to account for the CIA (as representative of the villainy of state terrorism), or for the fact that Hillary Clinton, the Butcher of Libya (and crudely exultant Murderess of Moammar Khadafy), has the brass balls to call herself a "Liberal."